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kzimmermann

@kzimmermann@fosstodon.org

An amateur hacker who works towards the advancement free software. Advocates for privacy and user freedom.

I have a #peertube channel hosted generously by Diode.zone:

https://diode.zone/video-channels/kzimmermann_podcast

:alpine: - :artix: - :freebsd: - :debian: - :raspberrypi:

Aeons ago (like 2016), I used to have an account on Quitter.se. You may consider this its spiritual continuation.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

interfluidity, to random
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even if you never use a microsoft product, people you interact with whom you trust, who may intend to respect your confidences, will unwittingly be running recall.

kzimmermann,
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@interfluidity and this is the crux of the matter, my friends.

"I don't care about recall - I don't use Windows."
"If you're concerned, switch to $ALT_OS and protect yourself."
"We Linux users retain our privacy!"

All true... until you interact with another person that uses Windows with enabled (which will be 95% of everyone you meet).

kzimmermann, to FreeBSD
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Updating #FreeBSD to 14.1-RELEASE in the laptop

Kernel and base already updated, now running pkg to finish off the job :)

kzimmermann,
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And we're done! #FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE is working great here, smooth transition. And it looks like ungoogled-chromium made its way back into the repos again, so I think I'll be able to work with it!

Not sure why the fetch shows it still in 14.0, though.

kzimmermann, to random
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CHAOTIC EVIL - runs Linux under Xfce with the Windows XP theme, complete with the "Bliss" wallpaper

kzimmermann,
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@jason123santa lowkey I wanna do something like that (windows XP theme) in front of my infosec team one day. When they ask what I'm doing I'll say "oh, just decided to work from my personal machine today as I have some other stuff I have to do. Hope that's alright."

kzimmermann, to random
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So I think I finally found out why in one of my installs fails to check signatures of packages (or so I hope).

It seems that apt's sig checking function is outsourced to the gpgv (not gpg) program, whose restricted usage is solely to check signatures. In the "broken" 2.2.40 version, apt passes some invalid command-line argumments resulting in failure. But in v2.2.43 this doesn't happen anymore. Not sure if this is surely the cause, but it's getting warmer.

kzimmermann,
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Next thing I found... the broken gpgv program is actually NOT a part of gpg, but rather from the Sequoia PGP project. The only problem is this: I can't uninstall it and install the gpg version instead!

Also, gpg seems horribly out of date here: 2.2.43 against 2.4.5 in Debian Sid repos, when I'm also running unstable (???)

kzimmermann, to random
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I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but can we take a minute to appreciate just how fast Linux boot time is?

I mean we all know already of course, but dammit, it's easy to oversee this. I had to reboot two machines (Linux with kernel updates and a windows one) this morning and it was like night and day. Also that windows one had SSD and ish, while Linux didn't. It still flew by in comparison.

I could care less about hating Microsoft at this point. I use GNU/Linux because it's better.

j1984pm, to random Spanish
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Mañana (o más tarde talvez) estaré probando #Profanity un cliente #XMPP sobre la Terminal a ver qué tal. Alguien lo usa?

https://profanity-im.github.io/

kzimmermann,
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@j1984pm sí, un ótimo cliente XMPP. Creo que es también el único cliente CLI que soporta #OMEMO por default (sin addon, etc). Otros clientes CLI interesantes son #mcabber y #poezio (escrito en Python).

hyde, to tvshows
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Subscene.com is gone! #tvshows #movies

#100DaysToOffload [38/100]

https://lazybear.io/posts/subscene-is-gone

kzimmermann,
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@hyde aww man! So many people around the globe will be disappointed!

kzimmermann,
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@hyde probably a bit of both? vide Torrentz's original website

kzimmermann, (edited ) to random
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Wow, file this under "Top ten most Chicken-shit lawsuits in the history of Tech:"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_v._International_Business_Machines_Corp.#

> Daniel Wallace, a United States citizen, sued the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for price fixing. In a later lawsuit, he unsuccessfully sued IBM, Novell, and Red Hat. Wallace claimed that free Linux prevented him from making a profit from selling his own operating system

Just- just wow. Microsoft, SCO, is that you?

kzimmermann,
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Of course, to hell with IBM, and no idea why the suit was filed under their name, since the dude was actually after the FSF because of the GPL out of everyone in the industry.

Again: HE TRIED TO SUE OVER A LICENSE THAT LITERALLY SAYS "USE AS YOU WISH, SELL IT, EVEN, DON'T BLAME US IF IT DOESN'T WORK!"

At least lol @ this:

> His fourth and final amended complaint was dismissed on March 20, 2006, by Judge John Daniel Tinder, and Wallace was ordered to pay the FSF's costs

kzimmermann, to random
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Goodness! It's already mid-year now, which probably means a new State of the Distro article is due some time soon...

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/state_of_the_distro_2023.html

Did anything change since then? New OSes got ranked? Find out more about this and other surprises when the 2024Q2 edition comes out!

#StateOfTheDistro

kzimmermann, to random
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Today:

ping: works
DNS: works
curl/wget: works
Every other network-interacting command-line utility: works
Lynx browser: works

Firefox: WHOOPS! YOU'RE NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET!

jackiechan_wtf_face.jpg

internetarchive, to random
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Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable.

We are working on it & will post updates in comments.

kzimmermann,
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Imagine how much of a chicken-shit you'd have to be to DDoS the @internetarchive out of all the websites out there.

That said, I hope they recover soon…

kzimmermann, to random
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It breaks my heart to see some very good OSes with good potential out there cross their arms and claim that "they are not intended to be used in the Desktop anyway." C'mon: if you have a solid enough base, one should be able to build a good generic desktop with it, even if you specialize in something else.

kzimmermann, to random
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lol cops are incredibly thin-skinned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB#Prosecution_history

kzimmermann,
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> On 22 May 2016, a 34-year-old woman in Madrid, Spain, was charged under Article 37 of the Citizen Safety Law for carrying a bag displaying the acronym "A.C.A.B." accompanied by the words "All Cats Are Beautiful". The charges were dropped 3 days later.

#1312

hyde, to privacy
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What is your number one reason you bring to people on why they should care about ?

Some say, they can have my data I don't care, or even if I got a card fraud, I'll get my money back from the insurance, or things like this.

I'm trying to find good examples to counter their cheap arguments ...

Boosts appreciated 🙏🏽

kzimmermann,
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@hyde I gave up on this quest years ago. Today, if someone outright says to my face they don't care about #privacy, I just shake their hand, wish them good luck and walk away. End of conversation. Nothing in the book says that I must bear that person, and that attitude is a sign that I didn't miss much anyway.

kzimmermann,
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@hyde but chances are that the person who asked has a smartphone at that precise moment. Ask to see it. If it's locked, ask "hey, why is it locked? Are you hiding anything from me?" If they say something about "security," you go "against what? Are you under attack? Are a person of interest or- WHOA WTF ARE YOU A TERRORIST?!"

Eventually they will admit it's privacy, and you can call their bluff. And if that phone was unlocked, well, bon appetit digging through their dirty shit!

stefano, to microsoft
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Big companies can't go down.
Big company services will never stop.
Big companies have THE CLOUD!

kzimmermann,
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@stefano ah yes, the cloud...

https://xkcd.com/908/

And the funniest part is it took down Duckduckgo with it. Goes to show how big tech eventually becomes cannibalistic.

kzimmermann, to random
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DuckDuckDown again...

kzimmermann,
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Well it's back up again, but I kind of enjoyed the ride; re-visiting #Searx after a while was a great refresher. I shall do it more often to fight data silos.

kzimmermann, to random
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The new output coloring behavior of the latest ip command makes it worse to find information in my opinion. Like, the important information is colored darker, reducing contrast against the terminal's background. Yes, coloring makes it easy to highlight a few key things against a sea of text, but I think they should re-think a little what to highlight in there, and the color scheme used as well.

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